Scarce Quotes
187 Scarce quotes by 155 unique authors
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There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a…
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but…
— Benjamin Franklin
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To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.
— Charles Lamb
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Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a…
— Alessandro Manzoni
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Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing…
— Richard Baxter
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It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them…
— Wangari Maathai
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I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a…
— Mark Twain
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When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and…
— Michael Short
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Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty - no…
— Unknown Author
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth:…
— Edmond Halley
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
— Amy Hempel
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But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury…
— William Bradford
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The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to…
— Henry Hazlitt
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The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off…
— George Reisman
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I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.
— David Brainerd
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Profit is vital to human well-being. Profit is the payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital and rent to…
— Walter E. Williams
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Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources.
— Greg Mankiw
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Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an exchange medium for…
— Jacque Fresco
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It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource, not because we…
— Richard Louv
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Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings us full circle…
— Rebecca Adamson
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Now suppose that the clue experiences that can correct the illusion become for some reason increasingly scarce – perhaps because the dominant story itself brings…
— Val Plumwood
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Man hath still either toys or care: But hath no root, nor to one place is tied, but ever restless and irregular, about this earth…
— Henry Vaughan
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No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make ordinary human beings…
— Peter Drucker
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As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led,…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night.
— Benjamin Franklin
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